Merge pull request #63 from robgolding/custom-task-command-location

[etc/taskwarrior.git] / tasklib / backends.py

diff --git a/tasklib/backends.py b/tasklib/backends.py
index 9110e125bb3ae38c4f3a9a71f7e6ff6f355d4df9..38f6c597087dceaf9615a87b197a812a25f75f19 100644 (file)
--- a/tasklib/backends.py
+++ b/tasklib/backends.py
@@ -95,16 +95,21 @@ class TaskWarrior(Backend):
     VERSION_2_4_5 = six.u('2.4.5')
 
     def __init__(self, data_location=None, create=True,
-                 taskrc_location='~/.taskrc'):
-        self.taskrc_location = os.path.expanduser(taskrc_location)
+                 taskrc_location=None, task_command='task',
+                 version_override=None):
+        self.taskrc_location = None
+        if taskrc_location:
+            self.taskrc_location = os.path.expanduser(taskrc_location)
 
-        # If taskrc does not exist, pass / to use defaults and avoid creating
-        # dummy .taskrc file by TaskWarrior
-        if not os.path.exists(self.taskrc_location):
-            self.taskrc_location = '/'
+            # If taskrc does not exist, pass / to use defaults and avoid creating
+            # dummy .taskrc file by TaskWarrior
+            if not os.path.exists(self.taskrc_location):
+                self.taskrc_location = '/'
+
+        self.task_command = task_command
 
         self._config = None
-        self.version = self._get_version()
+        self.version = version_override or self._get_version()
         self.overrides = {
             'confirmation': 'no',
             'dependency.confirmation': 'no',  # See TW-1483 or taskrc man page
@@ -127,8 +132,11 @@ class TaskWarrior(Backend):
 
         self.tasks = TaskQuerySet(self)
 
+    def _get_task_command(self):
+        return self.task_command.split()
+
     def _get_command_args(self, args, config_override=None):
-        command_args = ['task', 'rc:{0}'.format(self.taskrc_location)]
+        command_args = self._get_task_command()
         overrides = self.overrides.copy()
         overrides.update(config_override or dict())
         for item in overrides.items():
@@ -141,7 +149,7 @@ class TaskWarrior(Backend):
 
     def _get_version(self):
         p = subprocess.Popen(
-            ['task', '--version'],
+            self._get_task_command() + ['--version'],
             stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
             stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
         stdout, stderr = [x.decode('utf-8') for x in p.communicate()]
@@ -222,7 +230,7 @@ class TaskWarrior(Backend):
     def convert_datetime_string(self, value):
 
         if self.version >= self.VERSION_2_4_0:
-            # For strings, use 'task calc' to evaluate the string to datetime
+            # For strings, use 'calc' to evaluate the string to datetime
             # available since TW 2.4.0
             args = value.split()
             result = self.execute_command(['calc'] + args)
@@ -274,8 +282,11 @@ class TaskWarrior(Backend):
             args, config_override=config_override)
         logger.debug(u' '.join(command_args))
 
+        env = os.environ.copy()
+        if self.taskrc_location:
+            env['TASKRC'] = self.taskrc_location
         p = subprocess.Popen(command_args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
-                             stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+                             stderr=subprocess.PIPE, env=env)
         stdout, stderr = [x.decode('utf-8') for x in p.communicate()]
         if p.returncode and allow_failure:
             if stderr.strip():